Jazz and cocktails : rethinking race and the sound of film noir / by Wager, Jans B., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: nostalgia for the Lush Life -- Pie eye's juke joint : jazz and its interpretations -- The porters and waiters club : jazz, movies, and Ogden -- Studio jazz from Harlem to Acapulco -- The Blue Gardenia, Club Pigalle, and Daniel's : charting the alienation effect in film noir -- From Elysium to Robards, from real to reel -- A Paris bar where miles innovates -- "All the very gay places" : Ellington and Strayhorn swing in northern Michigan -- Cannoy's club : "All men are evil" -- "Jeep's blues" and jazz today.…”

Just before jazz : Black musical theater in New York, 1890-1915 / by Riis, Thomas Laurence

Wisconsin riffs : jazz profiles from the heartland / by Dietrich, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; WISCONSIN ICONS; 1 Bunny Berigan: The Miracle Man of Swing; 2 Woody Herman: Road Father; 3 Les Paul: The Wizard of Waukesha; THE EARLY YEARS; 4 Early Jazz in Milwaukee; 5 Swing and Mainstream Figures; BEYOND THE STATE; 6 Three Singers; 7 Seven Pianists; 8 West Coast Players; 9 New York Stars; STYLES AND SCHOOLS; 10 Milwaukee Mainstream; 11 Modern Jazz in Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Conservatory; 12 Jazz Rock; 13 Madison Loves Its Singers; 14 In and Around the University of Wisconsin-Madison; JAZZ AROUND THE STATE.…”
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NEA jazz masters 30th anniversary : 1982-2012 /

Subjects: “…Jazz musicians United States Biography.…”
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New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session on H.R. 3408 and S. 1586, bills to establish the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park in the state of Louisiana, and for other purposes, June 21, 1994--Washington, DC.

“…New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park (La.)…”
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Changing the beat : a study of the worklife of jazz musicians / by Jeffri, Joan

Subjects: “…Jazz musicians United States Social conditions Statistics.…”
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Notes to make the sound come right : four innovators of jazz poetry / by Anderson, T. J., III, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The jazz impulse in poetry -- Voices crossing over : a historical overview of jazz poetry -- Body and soul : Bob Kaufman's Golden sardine -- Now's the time : Stephen Jonas's Exercises for ear -- Hot house : Jayne Cortez and the music of illumination -- Interstellar space : Nathaniel Mackey's Musical weave -- Coda : the mixtery of jazz poetry.…”
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A pure solar world : Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism / by Youngquist, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to infinity -- Intro : Wonder Inn -- Alien -- Marienville -- Bronzeville -- Thmei -- Egypt -- Washington Park -- Arkestra -- Immeasurable equation -- El Saturn -- Isotope teleportation -- Cry of jazz -- Sputnik -- Rocketry -- Tomorrowland -- Interplanetary exotica -- Space music -- Myth science -- Black man in the cosmos -- Space is the place -- Tokens of infinity -- Continuation -- Outro : extensions out.…”

It's about time : the Dave Brubeck story / by Hall, Fred, 1923-

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Pres : the story of Lester Young / by Delannoy, Luc

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Talk that music talk : passing on brass band music in New Orleans the traditional way / by Sunpie (Musician), Breunlin, Rachel

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T Bone Burnett : a life in pursuit / by Sachs, Lloyd

Table of Contents: “…Opening chorus : on top of the world (or close) -- Sound citizen -- The outsider -- Player in the band -- Alpha male -- Spiritual gumshoe -- Master builder -- Co-conspirator -- Seeker -- Svengali -- Imagist -- Native son -- Mentor -- Hit man -- Reluctant artist -- Starmaker -- Company man -- Coen brother -- Soundtrack auteur -- Minimalist -- Lead actor -- Alchemist -- Jazz man -- Blues man -- Senior adviser -- Audio activist -- Dylanologist -- Televisionary -- Back to the futurist.…”
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T Bone Burnett : a life in pursuit / by Sachs, Lloyd

Table of Contents: “…Opening chorus : on top of the world (or close) -- Sound citizen -- The outsider -- Player in the band -- Alpha male -- Spiritual gumshoe -- Master builder -- Co-conspirator -- Seeker -- Svengali -- Imagist -- Native son -- Mentor -- Hit man -- Reluctant artist -- Starmaker -- Company man -- Coen brother -- Soundtrack auteur -- Minimalist -- Lead actor -- Alchemist -- Jazz man -- Blues man -- Senior adviser -- Audio activist -- Dylanologist -- Televisionary -- Back to the futurist.…”

Deep Ellum : the other side of Dallas / by Govenar, Alan B., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Deep Ellum : fact and fiction -- "Deep Elem blues" : song of the street -- The railroads create Deep Ellum -- William Sidney Pittman : architect of Deep Ellum -- Black Dallas -- Jewish pawnbrokers and merchants of Deep Ellum -- Blind Lemon Jefferson : downhome blues -- The contemporaries of Blind Lemon -- Blind Willie Johnson and Arizona Dranes : the "holy blues" of Deep Ellum -- Alex Moore : Dallas piano blues -- Buster Smith : Dallas jazz goes to Kansas City and New York -- Marvin Montgomery : the cross-fertilization of white and Black musical styles -- The contemporaries of Marvin Montgomery : western swing, Texas fiddling, and the big "D" jamboree -- Benny Binion : gambling and the policy racket -- Deep Ellum's just too doggone slow : decline and rebirth.…”
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Performing arts.

Table of Contents: “…Rohrbach -- From Omnibus to NET : television and culture / by Donald Kent -- Production music in television's golden age, an overview / by Paul Mandell -- Jazz on television at the Library of Congress / by Krin Gabbard -- Groucho Marx runs through the Library of Congress / by Barbara Pruett -- A tribute to Gerard Joseph Mulligan : the Library opens a permanent exhibition for the Gerry Mulligan Collection / by Iris Newsom.…”

Film's musical moments /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: MUSIC, FILM, CULTURE -- 2 JAZZ, IDEOLOGY AND THE ANIMATED CARTOON -- 3 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BIG BAND MUSICAL -- 4 TELEVISION, THE POP INDUSTRY AND THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL -- 5 THE OPERATIC IN NEW GERMAN CINEMA -- PART TWO: STARS, PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION -- 6 JACK BUCHANAN AND BRITISH MUSICAL COMEDY OF THE 1930s -- 7 STAR PERSONAE AND AUTHENTICITY IN THE COUNTRY MUSIC BIOPIC -- 8 STARDOM, RECEPTION AND THE ABBA 'MUSICAL' -- PART THREE: THE POST-CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD MOVIE -- 9 MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AND THE CULT FILM EXPERIENCE -- 10 THE SOUNDTRACK MOVIE, NOSTALGIA AND CONSUMPTION -- 11 YOUTH, EXCESS AND THE MUSICAL MOMENT -- 12 MUSIC, FILM AND POST-STONEWALL GAY IDENTITY -- PART FOUR: BEYOND HOLLYWOOD -- 13 EARLY DANISH MUSICAL COMEDIES, 1931-9 -- 14 FILM MUSICALS IN THE GDR -- 15 MUSIC IN THE BOLLYWOOD FILM -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Last Page.…”
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African Americans on the Great Plains : an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Breaux -- Great plains pragmatist: Aaron Douglas and the art of social protest / Audrey Thompson -- Frompin' in the Great Plains: listening and dancing to the jazz orchestras of Alphonso Trent, 1925-1944 / Marc Rice -- Early civil rights activism in Topeka, Kansas, prior to the 1954 Brown case / Jean Van Delinder -- The Great Plains sit-in movement, 1958-1960 / Ronald Walters -- The Omaha gospel complex in historical perspective / Tom Jack.…”
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African Americans on the Great Plains : an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Breaux -- Great plains pragmatist: Aaron Douglas and the art of social protest / Audrey Thompson -- Frompin' in the Great Plains: listening and dancing to the jazz orchestras of Alphonso Trent, 1925-1944 / Marc Rice -- Early civil rights activism in Topeka, Kansas, prior to the 1954 Brown case / Jean Van Delinder -- The Great Plains sit-in movement, 1958-1960 / Ronald Walters -- The Omaha gospel complex in historical perspective / Tom Jack.…”
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Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest / by Willis-Abdurraqib, Hanif

Musical identities /

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